Vim 9.2 Released
3 112"More than two years after the last major 9.1 release, the Vim project has announced Vim 9.2," reports the blog Linuxiac: A big part of this update focuses on improving Vim9 Script as Vim 9.2 adds support for enums, generic functions, and tuple types.
On top of that, you can now use built-in functions as methods, and class handling includes features like protected constructors with _new(). The :defcompile command has also been improved to fully compile methods, which boosts performance and consistency in Vim9 scripts.
Insert mode completion now includes fuzzy matching, so you get more flexible suggestions without extra plugins. You can also complete words from registers using CTRL-X CTRL-R. New completeopt flags like nosort and nearest give you more control over how matches are shown. Vim 9.2 also makes diff mode better by improving how differences are lined up and shown, especially in complex cases.
Plus on Linux and Unix-like systems, Vim "now adheres to the XDG Base Directory Specification, using $HOME/.config/vim for user configuration," according to the release notes.
And Phoronix Mcites more new features: Vim 9.2 features "full support" for Wayland with its UI and clipboard handling. The Wayland support is considered experimental in this release but it should be in good shape overall...
Vim 9.2 also brings a new vertical tab panel alternative to the horizontal tab line.
The Microsoft Windows GUI for Vim now also has native dark mode support.
You can find the new release on Vim's "Download" page.
3 comments
Re:Still developed (Score: 5, Funny)
by SchroedingersCat ( 583063 ) on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:32AM (#65990424)
If they keep at it, they will eventually implement emacs.
Re:why vim? (Score: 5, Informative)
by Waffle Iron ( 339739 ) on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:40AM (#65990438)
If somebody has X or Wayland and a DE on top of it, why would s/he want to use vim? Why not just use one of the editors that come w/ the DE?
Because vim has super-powerful features for development. I still prefer it to any IDE I've ever used over the past 30 years. (Although I will say that VS Code is better for read-only browsing of large code bases. Other than that use, I find its behavior to be infuriating, and its "vim mode" is crap.)
vim is also superior to nano-type editors for any nontrivial editing of non-code files, with macros and powerful commands that can reorganize thousands of lines instantly. Notepad++ is also OK for that work, but you have to install it separately and is mostly just for Windows.
BTW, with a desktop environment, use the GUI-based gvim, not plain vim in a terminal. You get scrollbars, better cursor and mouse behavior, etc.
Incredible (Score: 5, Interesting)
by SlashbotAgent ( 6477336 ) on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:29AM (#65990202)
It's incredible, to me, that Vim is still under any sort of development. I would not have thought that it would need anything further.